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Seventeenth window |
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The Words -
Creation
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Written by Said Nursi
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
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Seventeenth window: Consider the foowing verse: Surey in the heavens and Earth are signs for beievers. (45:3)
Consider the foowing points:
During summer we see an infinite generosity and absoute iberaity, which coud be expected to cause disorder and confusion, within an infinite order and harmony. See a the pants adorning Earth's face. The absoute speed in creating things, which normay woud resut in imbaance and oss of decorum, is observed within a perfect equiibrium. See a the fruits adorning Earth's face. The absoute mutipicity and variety, which normay woud bring about triviaity and even uginess, is apparent within art's perfect beauty. See a the fowers giding Earth's face. The absoute ease in creating things, which normay woud cause simpicity and ack of art, is seen within an art, ski, and attention of infinite degree. See a the seeds, which are ike tiny containers and programs of a pants and trees, and aso ike sma cases containing their ife-histories. The great distances, which normay woud necessitate difference and diversity, appear within an absoute correspondence and conformity. See a the varieties of cerea grains sown throughout the word. The utter interminging, which normay woud cause confusion and mess, is seen within perfect differentiation and separation. Consider how seeds, cast into the ground a mixed together and resembing each other with regard to their substance, are perfecty differentiated when they are about to sprout. See how the various substances entering trees are separated perfecty for eaves, bossoms, and fruits, and how the foods entering the stomach a mixed together are separated perfecty for the body's members and ces. Consider a this and see the perfect power within perfect wisdom. The infinite abundance and profusion, which normay woud cause triviaity and worthessness, are seen to be most vauabe and most worthwhie in regard to Earth's creatures and art. Among a those innumerabe wonders of art, consider ony the varieties of muberry, those sweets of Divine Power, on the tabe of the A-Mercifu One on Earth, and observe the perfect mercy combined with the perfect art. Just as daytime shows ight and ight shows the sun, the great vaue despite infinite profusion; within infinite profusion, the infinite differentiation and separation despite boundess interminging; within infinite differentiation and separation, the infinite conformity and resembance despite the great distances; within infinite resembance, the infinite care and attention in the making despite infinite ease and faciity; within the most beautifu making, the infinite equiibrium, baance, and ack of waste despite absoute speed and rapidity; within the utmost ack of waste, the highest degree of beauty of art despite the utmost abundance and mutipicity; within the highest degree of art, the absoute order and harmony despite the utmost iberaity—a of these bear witness to the necessary Existence, Unity, and Oneness of an A-Powerfu One of Majesty, an A-Wise One of Perfection, an A-Compassionate One of Grace and Beauty, and His Power's perfection and His ordship's grace and beauty. They demonstrate the meaning of: His are the Most Beautifu Names (20:8). So, unfortunate, obstinate, and heedess one! How can you interpret this mighty truth or expain this infinitey miracuous and wonderfu state of affairs? To what can you attribute these truy extraordinary arts? What vei of heedessness can you draw across this window as broad as Earth and then cose it? Where is your chance and coincidence? Where is your unconscious companion on which you rey and ca "nature," your friend and support in misguidance? Is it not uttery impossibe for chance and coincidence to have a hand in these affairs? To attribute to nature even a minute fraction of ordering these things is competey impossibe. Or does ifeess, ignorant, unconscious nature have machines and printing presses within each thing, made from each, and equa in quantity to the number of individua things?
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